Fellowships
Are you a champion of open science and open data? Mozilla is seeking researchers eager to advance openness in science and data within their institutions.
Our 2017 Fellows
The fellows chosen are representative of the change we want to see in the community, championing openness, collaboration, and mentorship in science. Over the next ten months, the fellows will work on projects to help their local communities engage with open data, open source software and teach forward to their peers. They will also receive training and support from Mozilla to hone their skills around open source, participatory learning, and data sharing.
Amel Ghouila
A computer scientist by background, Amel earned her PhD in Bioinformatics and is currently a bioinformatician at Institut Pasteur de Tunis, where she works on the frame of the pan-African bioinformatics network H3ABionet supporting researchers and their projects while developing bioinformatics capacity throughout Africa. Amel is passionate about knowledge transfer and working open to foster collaborations and innovation in the biomedical research field. She is also passionate about empowering and educating young girls, she launched the Technovation Challenge Tunisian chapter to help Tunisian girls learn how to address challenges in their communities by designing mobile applications.
Chris Hartgerink
Chris is an applied statistics PhD-candidate at Tilburg University, as part of the Metaresearch group. He has contributed to open science projects such as the Reproducibility Project: Psychology, tries to develop open-source software for scientists, and does research on detecting data fabrication in science. He is particularly interested in how the scholarly system can be adapted to become sustainable, healthy scholarly environment with permissive use of content, which also aligns the needs of science and scientists instead of creating a perverse system that promotes unreliable science. He initiated Liberate Science to work towards such a system.
Our 2016 Fellows
Kirstie Whitaker
A postdoctoral researcher in the Brain Mapping Unit at the University of Cambridge. She studies adolescent brain development and is particularly interested in the emergence of mental health disorders during the teenage years. She uses network analyses to understand how different parts of the brain work work together and ensures all her analyses are reproducible by independent researchers. She's the founder and lead developer of the STEMM Role Models project which provides a database of experts from traditionally under-represented groups to ensure conference organizers are able to invite the most diverse and exciting speakers to their events.
Bruno Miguel Pereira Vieira
A bioinformatics and population genomics PhD student at WurmLab (Queen Mary University of London) and Node.js web developer. Researching how genetic diversity is affected by sociality in insects (e.g., ants and bees). He founded the open source community Bionode.io with the goal of improving modularity and reusability of tools and code in bioinformatics by leveraging innovation coming from the Node.js and Web communities. He's involved in other open source projects such as Dat ("git for data") and BioJS ("biological data visualization on the web”).
Danielle Robinson
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A cell biologist and Neuroscience PhD candidate at Oregon Health and Science University passionate about improving reproducibility and digital literacy in the sciences. She studies the role of phosphoinositide signaling in myelination in her dissertation project, collects terabytes of microscopy data, loves fancy microscopes, and enjoys policy work. She co-organizes Open Insight PDX, which seeks to build skills that enhance research reproducibility and facilitate discussion of issues surrounding publishing, data sharing, and copyright. She is a founding member of Women in Science Portland and an organizer for Science Hack Day Portland.
Teon Brooks
A postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He studies the cognitive processes and temporal dynamics of the brain during reading. He is a core developer for MNE, a community-driven project for analyzing time-series brain data in Python; and OpenEXP, an open science platform founded to be a "GitHub for Experiments" and a tool for running both behavioral and physiological experiments using open-source web-based tools. He is also developing curriculum, DIYCogSci, for teaching experimental research methods and coding using low-cost electronics and open-source hardware.
Our 2015 Fellows
Richard Smith-Unna
A computational biology PhD student at the University of Cambridge. He is currently focused on understanding a particularly efficient kind of photosynthesis called C4. He develops and contributes to a wide array of open source software and teaching materials for bioinformatics, including the Content Mine, Solvers.io, and BioJulia.
Christie Bahlai
An insect ecologist and post-doctoral research associate at Michigan State University. She works with the NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research network, and is interested in how we can use big(ish) ecological data and open science approaches to help build sustainable agricultural systems. She’s an instructor with Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry and maintains a blog about open science and data management called Practical Data Management.
Joey Lee
A geographer and computational media artist from San Francisco, California passionate about technological literacy and the engagement of art and science through computation and collaboration. He is co-author of "The Big Atlas of LA Pools" and co-creator of the "Aerial Bold" Kickstarter project (video here). He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, balancing his time between his MSc research and teaching at the University of British Columbia, building workshops around opensource tools (e.g. Maptime Vancouver), and exploring projects around geography and technology.
Jason Bobe
An Associate Professor and director of the Sharing Lab at the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai where he leads the Resilience Project with Eric Schadt and Stephen Friend, a research study that aims to find and decode people who are able to avoid disease despite having genetic risk factors. He has founded two open science nonprofits, PersonalGenomes.org & DIYbio. With co-founder Madeleine Ball, he has created OpenHumans.org, a platform that connects people and their data with researchers that practice equitable data sharing. With George Church, he coordinates the Global Network of Personal Genome Projects, now with sites in four countries.